Quote Originally Posted by Slovnaft View Post
Well in all fairness i did push it up to 1.55 for a few hours to make various 3d bench attempts, i think once i mightve even tried 1.6. I really wasn't too careful.
And this is all on air.


And back to nehalem, this is the first single die quad core isn't it?
all else aside i think nehalem is a miracle of microarchitecture.
1.6V for a 45nm chip with high-K/mg is a bit of a stretch.

Nope,Nehalem is not a first single die quad core(generally speaking).As for a miracle,it's quite impressive and extremely complicated.That's why intel decided to make it @ 45nm and not @ 65nm.It's base line Penryn ,but with a lot of both small and big tweaks.The biggest change is ,for sure, the riddance of FSB.QPI+ IMC is going to help them a lot in multi socket server market.On desktop,i doubt it make a big difference(apart from SMT and IMC that will make a difference compared to C2Q).